January 03, 2013, 8:00AM

Fecal transplants are being used to help patients overcome the life-threatening gut infection Clostridium difficile, or C. diff. It can be performed in a number of ways. Most often, doctors use a colonoscopy-like procedure, sedating a patient and depositing liquified, donated stool through a tube in the rectum. But sometimes they use a nasogastric tube, that goes through the nose, down the throat and into the gut. Other times, the stool is administered as an enema. Full story »

March 29, 2012, 3:56AM

Here are some corrections from Saturday's article "Protesters blast birth-control rule." The Mayo Clinic's description of the morning-after pill states, "The morning-after pill can . . . keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus." Also, The Washington Post Fact Checker found the much-quoted statement that "98 percent of Catholic women use contraception" to be false. I'd like... Full story »

May 28, 2011, 5:20AM

Dr. James A. Levine, famous for his research on how important activity is to staying lean and healthy, has left University Hospitals Case Medical Center after only six months to return to the Mayo Clinic. Full story »

December 15, 2010, 12:00PM

The Cleveland Clinic, along with the Mayo Clinic and four other hospital systems, will search for better treatment for diabetes, heart failure, depression and many other disorders, all at lower costs, in what they're calling the first collaboration of its kind. Full story »

October 12, 2010, 8:19AM

Obesity expert Dr. James Levine will join University Hospitals Case Medical Center Nov. 1 as chief of endocrinology. Levine, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been recognized nationally for the invention of one of the first treadmill desks and his research on simple ways to lose weight through daily activities. Full story »

September 10, 2010, 2:21PM

Dr. John Augustine Washington chaired clinical pathology at the Cleveland Clinic, developed life-saving antibiotics and made important discoveries about infections. Washington died at Hillcrest Hospital on Sept. 5. He was 74. He was descended from a brother of President Washington, born in Istanbul to a career diplomat and raised partly by a grandmother in Charles Town, W.Va. He graduated... Full story »

June 16, 2009, 11:45AM

WASHINGTON — It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too. Doctors don't yet know how likely patients' bones are to thin enough to break in the years after surgery. But one of the first attempts to tell suggests they might have twice the average person's risk, and be even more likely... Full story »

September 15, 2008, 10:09AM

Dino Kasdagly, chief operating officer at Mayo Collaborative Services Inc., has been named chief executive officer of the Cleveland Clinic Reference Laboratory. Kasdagly previously served as senior vice president of development for Digi International Inc., vice president of national development for Pragatek Consulting Group, and vice president of research and development of Imation Corp. -- all Minnesota-based firms, according to... Full story »

September 03, 2008, 6:00PM

A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday. The experimental method -- molecular breast imaging, or MBI -- would not replace mammograms for women at average risk of the disease. But it might become an additional... Full story »